Ardmore, OK

We headed to Oklahoma next. Bill’s parents live in Ardmore, and we are currently staying here. We enjoyed swimming in Lake Murray and visiting the city water park, which had this cool whirlpool area that pulled and pushed you around the pool!! That was a blast!

This has been a crazy visit though -- Bill has been to the ER twice!! He was having excruciating pain from his kidney stone. He found out he had a kidney stone while we were still in Yuma, but the pain went away, so he didn’t worry about it.

Well, it let us know that you don’t forget about a kidney stone! If you don’t pass it, it will come back to haunt you!! Luckily, we were here with family and he was able to have surgery to remove it and now he has to have some follow up stuff done, but he is doing so much better. We’re not quite sure if we will actually get going on our RV adventure or not…just kidding! We will be here through July 4th and then we head South, back to Texas and to the VA hospital in Houston for Bill’s follow up care.


In the meantime, we are enjoying our visit. Along with Mike and Connie (Bill’s parents), Dan (Bill's brother) and his wife Cindy have visited. Also, Mike and Connie have Spencer and Gavin (Bill’s sister’s sons) here and the kids love it!

Paul and Gavin hit it off right away – they both love WII and Legos, so needless to say, we don’t see them much! As for Anna and Noah, they follow Spencer around everywhere. Spencer is 14 and surprisingly doesn’t mind the kids tagging along to catch crickets, frogs, etc. He also takes them on tractor rides, which is the “Okie roller coaster”!


Anna has also been cooking a lot. She and grandpa have made an apricot pie, strawberry cake, and macaroni salad! She also enjoys helping with making meals -- maybe she'll be a chef someday and I won't have to cook anymore! Woohoo!